Word: racisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...elements have the potential to be affected by co-ed casting; dramatic transvestism could be maintained (and turned to good use) by full or partial cross-casting, and the sexual humor may actually be increased. Egalitarian casting would be the first step towards the elimination of homophobia, sexism and racism from the scripts...
...call for a new campus newspaper that reflects a campus-wide commitment to ending racism, sexism, and homophobia, and promotes a vision of cultural empathy and understanding," they wrote...
Geoffrey C. Upton's column "Seeing Kiss 108 in Black and White" (Dec. 2) is riddled with muddled contradictions and false comparisons. While Upton rightly asserts that "the fact that America has black icons...does not mean that racism has vanished from our lives," he disregards this affirmation by calling for a multi-racial democracy based on promoting "black" culture in "white" media, for example by featuring Brandy and Monica on Kiss 108--as if playing "The Boy is Mine" ad nauseum could serve as a catalyst for bridging America's racial divisions...
...context, Levittown became the anti-Williamsburg: Not a re-creation of some idealized past but a living glimpse of the ticky-tacky future. The social critic Lewis Mumford called it "a low-grade uniform environment from which escape is impossible." Levittown was also tainted at birth by the offhand racism of midcentury America. Though Levittown is racially mixed today, for years Levitt's sales contracts barred resale to African Americans. He once offered to build a separate development for blacks but refused to integrate his white Levitt developments. "We can solve a housing problem, or we can try to solve...
...call to black Americans, saying that they are "a mighty people" who can and must determine and define their own destiny. As young men, Kwame--then known as Stokely Carmichael--and I worked together in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. We honestly felt that we could topple the racism and segregation that had stifled--and continues to stifle--the aspirations of generations of African Americans. I learned much from Kwame about courage, commitment, strategy and being uncompromising in the pursuit of revolutionary social change...